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Scientists developing Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composite Materials
Scientists developing Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composite Materials Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that demonstrates how fibre-reinforced...
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Making Concrete Stronger and More Durable with Resin
Making Concrete Stronger and More Durable with Resin Engineering structures made of concrete, steel, or other materials are subject to vibrations and stress. Because of this, small cracks appear, whic...
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MIT exploring Cobalt-free Vehicle Batteries
MIT exploring Cobalt-free Vehicle Batteries Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt — a metal that carries high financial, environmental, and social costs. MIT researchers...
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Armour Steel
Armouring Steel to make even Tougher Materials Researchers demonstrated that stainless steel and other metal alloys coated with hexagonal boron nitride, or hBN, exhibit non-stick or low-friction quali...
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Predicting Road Safety Issues using AI to Analyse the Roadway
Predicting Road Safety Issues using AI to Analyse the Roadway Issues such as abrupt changes in speed limits and incomplete lane markings are among the most influential factors that can predict road cr...
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Scaling up Nanomaterials for Sustainable Manufacturing
Scaling up Nanomaterials for Sustainable Manufacturing As electronic devices get smaller, the materials needed to create them get smaller as well. Nanoscience is the study of extremely small materials...
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Accelerating Chemistry discoveries with Automation
Accelerating Chemistry discoveries with Automation A new automated workflow developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has the potential to allow researchers to an...
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Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion to Revolutionize Metalworking
Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion to Revolutionize Metalworking Researchers are using new, experimental techniques like Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPE™) and friction stir...
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Recyclable Polymers and Plastics from Plants
Recyclable Polymers and Plastics from Plants Researchers at Hokkaido University have taken a significant step forward in the drive to make recyclable yet stable plastics from plant materials. This is...
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Unlock Lithium-ion Battery Secrets with the Peltier Effect
Unlock Lithium-ion Battery Secrets with the Peltier Effect Batteries are usually studied via electrical properties like voltage and current, but new research suggests that observing how heat flows in...
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Damage Prevention and Early Detection for Buried Pipelines
Damage Prevention and Early Detection for Buried Pipelines The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has developed a damage prevention and early detection system for buried pipelines, prev...
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Holding materials together with Electroadhesion
Holding materials together with Electroadhesion Is there a way to stick hard and soft materials together without any tape, glue or epoxy? A new study published in ACS Central Science shows that applyi...
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3D Printing stronger materials five times faster
3D Printing stronger materials five times faster It’s allowed the aerospace, medical, automotive, manufacturing and many other industries to customize parts and prototypes in ways they never could bef...
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Graforce Plasma Technology set to advances Hydrogen Economy and CO2 Removal
Graforce Plasma Technology set to advances Hydrogen Economy and CO2 Removal Graforce is setting new standards in hydrogen production and carbon dioxide removal with its cross-cutting plasma technology...
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Revolutionizing Chemical Catalysis
Revolutionizing Chemical Catalysis In a world constantly seeking more efficient and sustainable industrial processes, a ground-breaking discovery has emerged from the laboratories of the Massachusetts...
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True One-way Glass with new Optical Metamaterial
True One-way Glass with new Optical Metamaterial A new approach has allowed researchers at Aalto University to create a kind of metamaterial that has so far been beyond the reach of existing technolog...
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Detecting Structural Cracks with Circular Vibration Mode Ultrasound
Detecting Structural Cracks with Circular Vibration Mode Ultrasound A high-efficiency circular vibration/polarization ultrasonic conversion technology capable of detecting cracks, which can occur in v...
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Creating Highly Ordered Self-Assembled Materials with Thermal Engineered Templates
Creating Highly Ordered Self-Assembled Materials with Thermal Engineered Templates Self-assembled solidifying eutectic materials directed by a template with miniature features demonstrate unique micro...
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Superhydrophobic Materials revolutionizing Surface Science
Superhydrophobic Materials revolutionizing Surface Science Superhydrophobic surfaces, characterized by their ability to repel water with a contact angle above 150° and a sliding angle below 10°, offer...
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Atoms thick adhesive tape set to revolutionize future technology
Atoms thick adhesive tape set to revolutionize future technology Materials just atoms in thickness, known as two-dimensional (2D) materials, are set to revolutionize future technology, including in th...
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Improving Fuel Cell Durability with Fatigue-Resistant Membranes
Improving Fuel Cell Durability with Fatigue-Resistant Membranes In hydrogen fuel cells, electrolyte membranes frequently undergo deformation and develop cracks during operation. A research team has re...
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Turning Red Mud into Green Steel for Sustainable Metal Production
Turning Red Mud into Green Steel for Sustainable Metal Production The production of aluminium generates around 180 million tonnes of toxic red mud every year. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für...
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Scrap Aluminium and the ShAPE of future buildings
Scrap Aluminium and the ShAPE of future buildings The circular economy just closed the loop on scrap aluminium, thanks to a new patent-pending technology developed at the Department of Energy’s Pacifi...
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Shedding light on Semiconductors for Solar Fuels
Shedding light on Semiconductors for Solar Fuels Scientists are advancing the use of semiconductors to convert sunlight into renewable energy. In solar cells, semiconductors convert sunlight into elec...
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Identifying and Mitigating Corrosion Science on an Atomic Level
Identifying and Mitigating Corrosion Science on an Atomic Level When water vapor meets metal, the resulting corrosion can lead to mechanical problems that harm a machine’s performance. Through a proce...
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Semiconductor created using Graphene opens door on a new era in Electronics
Semiconductor created using Graphene opens door on a new era in Electronics Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphen...
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MIT explores 3D Printing portable Mass Spectrometer
MIT explores 3D Printing portable Mass Spectrometer Mass spectrometers, devices that identify chemical substances, are widely used in applications like crime scene analysis, toxicology testing, and ge...
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Unravelling the Enigma of Fog
Unravelling the Enigma of Fog Of the world’s various weather phenomena, fog is perhaps the most mysterious, forming and dissipating near the ground with fluctuations in air temperature and humidity in...
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Revolutionary All-Optical Switches illuminate path to more efficient Computers
Revolutionary All-Optical Switches illuminate path to more efficient Computers In the constantly evolving realm of computing technology, a recent breakthrough at the Argonne National Laboratory, in co...
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Revolutionizing Chemistry with AI-Powered Modelling of Transition States
Revolutionizing Chemistry with AI-Powered Modelling of Transition States In the dynamic world of chemical reactions, understanding the fleeting moment of transition states – the ‘point of no ret...
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Thermoregulating Roof Tile could cut both Heating and Cooling costs
Thermoregulating Roof Tile could cut both Heating and Cooling costs About half of an average American building’s energy consumption is spent on heating and cooling. That’s a lot of money spent, fossil...
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Drexel University unveils BioFiber Technology for Self-Healing Structures
Drexel University unveils BioFiber Technology for Self-Healing Structures In hopes of producing concrete structures that can repair their cracks, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engine...
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Energising the Future with Smart Microgrids
Energising the Future with Smart Microgrids In an era where energy demands are escalating and climate change poses increasing challenges, the realm of power restoration is witnessing a paradigm shift,...
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Studying Collective Phenomena in Fractured Rocks
Studying Collective Phenomena in Fractured Rocks For many decades, the rock mechanics community has tacitly assumed that a rock mass can be equated to the sum of fractures and intact rocks. Accordingl...
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Sunlight could transform wastewater into valuable chemicals
Sunlight could transform wastewater into valuable chemicals Researchers led by Prof. GAO Xiang from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. LU...
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Robots revolutionise Electrochemistry Research
Robots revolutionise Electrochemistry Research In a significant stride towards revolutionizing electrochemical research, a team at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology has introdu...
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MIT finds that light can make water evaporate without heat
MIT finds that light can make water evaporate without heat Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our bodies to the dew burning off in the morning sun. But science...
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Revolutionary Powder Engineering tech adds AI to the mix
Revolutionary Powder Engineering tech adds AI to the mix Imagine a world without powders. It may sound exaggerated, but our daily lives are intricately connected to powders in various ways from foods,...
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New computational methods fingerprints Polymer motions under flow
New computational methods fingerprints Polymer motions under flow Polymers are large molecules that are made by linking a series of identical building blocks. They are attractive for manufacturing bec...
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Microelectronics to take computing to new heights
Microelectronics to take computing to new heights You’re seeing the story on your screen right now thanks to tiny switches known as transistors. The microchips in computers contain billions of them, e...
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MIT develops process to turn Carbon Dioxide into Fuel
MIT develops process to turn Carbon Dioxide into Fuel The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful....
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New technology increases Hardness and Wear Properties of Titanium
New technology increases Hardness and Wear Properties of Titanium Scientists have suggested the technology that increases hardness and wear properties of titanium products. With the help of plasma ele...
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Creating the most Water-Repellent Materials
Creating the most Water-Repellent Materials Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry. The discovery chall...
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Scientists working to evolve recycling of mixed plastics
Scientists working to evolve recycling of mixed plastics Little of the mixed consumer plastics thrown away or placed in recycle bins actually ends up being recycled. Nearly 90% is buried in landfills...
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AI helping to develop Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Catalysts
AI helping to develop Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Catalysts Proton exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cells (PEMFCs) used in hydrogen vehicles use expensive platinum catalysts to facilitate the oxygen reduction r...
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MIT brings Quantum Error Correction a step closer to reality
MIT brings Quantum Error Correction a step closer to reality In the future, quantum computers may be able to solve problems that are far too complex for today’s most powerful supercomputers. To realiz...
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KMOU Scientists pave way for Wireless Energy Transfer and optimized IoT
KMOU Scientists pave way for Wireless Energy Transfer and optimized IoT Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)-aided nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, used for communi...
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Ancient Roman Glass buried for centuries could lead to new materials
Ancient Roman Glass buried for centuries could lead to new materials Some 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, glass vessels carrying wine or water, or perhaps an exotic perfumes, tumble from a table in a...
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Gear up for Highly-Functional Material Week in Tokyo
Gear up for Highly-Functional Material Week in Tokyo The eagerly anticipated Highly-Functional Material Week TOKYO, taking place from October 4 to 6 at the renowned Makuhari Messe in Tokyo, is poised...
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New Polymer can adapt to high and low temperature extremes
New Polymer can adapt to high and low temperature extremes The modern world is filled with synthetic polymers, long-chained molecules designed by scientists to fill all manner of applications. Researc...
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